The Detroit Tigers don’t often draft players like Chase Strumpf. Normally a club to go after shortstops, catchers, and outfielders when they are not drafting hard-throwing pitchers, the Tigers broke from their mold when they took second baseman Kody Clemens with their third round pick back in 2018. How out of character was this for them? The last time the Tigers took a second baseman in the top 15 rounds of the draft prior to Clemens was Devon Travis, a 13th round pick in 2012. You have to go all the way back to 2010 to find one they took in the first 10 rounds (Corey Jones is your trivia answer, by the way).
2019 MLB draft profile: 2B Chase Strumpf is an advanced hitter that could move quickly
